So, it looks like my current gig is turning out to be everything I hoped for as I'm posting this from my hotel in Phily where I'm attending training in Pathology Informatics. YEAH ME!!!! Geez, I'm such a corn ball, LOL!! When I arrived last night, I realized that my someone at my office forgot to authorize credit card use to cover my hotel expenses. So in keeping in the spirit of "I didn't come all the way here from Metro DC to forge use of someone else's credit card", I promptly asked to see a manager when I was asked to provide my own credit card as proof that someone else was footing the hotel bill!!! Whatever!! Needless to say it was handled the way it should have been originally and I wish I could say that was the end on my hotel "challenges". The second occured during lunch the following day when I gathered a plate to take back to my room where my daughter was waiting to have lunch with me( FYI her lunch was served by hotel room service), only to be stopped by someone on the hotel staff and asked if I was supposed to be eating the food on my plate. His next statement was that he didn't see me in the conference room adjacent to where lunch was being served. Ok, cool, 'ol boy is having a bad day, maybe he didn't have his wheaties of something for breakfast. So now I check myself, I've got 4 college degrees including 2 MS degrees in Science, I'm well respected and paid on my job, yet I came all the way to Philly to steal food from someone else's lunch buffet?? And to top it all off, I'm actaully STAYING in the 5 star hotel where the conference is being held!!
Most times when things like this happens I'm cool, but I gotta admit I almost completely lost it this time. How in the hell, can a foreign born (Middle Eastern to be exact) food service worker be comfortable enough with himself to question Black woman in a suit and carrying a CoCo Chanel Handbag about stealing ~$6.00 worth of food off a lunch buffet???
I think Imma ponder that for a few days...........................................
"How in the hell, can a foreign born (Middle Eastern to be exact) food service worker be comfortable enough with himself to question Black woman in a suit and carrying a CoCo Chanel Handbag about stealing ~$6.00 worth of food off a lunch buffet???"
ReplyDeleteFunny! Isn't America great that
even foreign born food service workers have the nerve of being uppity? Hehehe
I realize that this comment probably came off as pretty racist and perhaps it is. But over the years, NOTHING has pissed me off more than people coming to this country treating people of color worse than America born racists do.
ReplyDeleteAs for the guy, he was reprimanded by his boss, assigned to another group, and the hotel gave me a very nice going away package for my troubles. Still, I doubt I'll every stay in this hotel again!
I just read your comment. I did not think what you wrote was racist... I understood...
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